Barnard College Library Research Guide BC1150: On the Origin of Human Nature Professor Jeanne Poindexter

Contents:
CLIO
Finding Articles
Web Resources
Library Services
 

USING CLIO TO FIND BOOKS AND JOURNALS     

You can enter CLIO from the Barnard Library home page or from the Columbia University LibraryWeb.    

• CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the Columbia University Libraries and includes Barnard Library's holdings.

• Title search: leave off the initial article (The, An, La, etc.)

• Author search: put last name, then first name

• Keyword search: use and, or or not between the terms, or quotes for a phrase, and use ? for truncation (to find variant endings of a word)

• Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use the More Limits or Post Limits options

• Finding a book about a person or a subject: start with a Keyword search using the most distinctive words associated with the topic.  Then look for useful subject headings and do a Subject search.
• Subject headings that might be useful:

Anthropology.
Culture.
Evolution (Biology).
Evolutionary psychology.
Human beings.
Human evolution.
Human evolution--Philosophy.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Language acquisition.
Language and languages--Origin.
Linguistic change.
Nature and nurture.
Psychobiology.
Psycholinguistics.
Sociobiology.

• Note that although the Barnard Library is in Lehman Hall, CLIO location Lehman means the Social Sciences library at Columbia; Barnard books have the location Barnard.

FINDING ARTICLES USING INDEXES

Finding articles using an index is a two-step process:
1.  Find relevant citations in the index;
2.  Find the article itself, by a) clicking on "e-link" to find the full-text article, if we have it, or b) searching CLIO for the title of the journal.

For further help with searching indexes, ask at the Reference Desk on the second floor of the library, or ask your advisor.
These indexes are all on the Databases list on the Barnard Library homepage or Columbia LibraryWeb:

• Anthropological Index Online: index to anthropological journals,1957 to the present
• Anthropological Literature: citations and abstracts for articles in anthropology, archaeology and ethnohistory, late 19th century to the present
• Biological Abstracts: citations and abstracts for articles in biology, plant and animal science, ecology, paleontology, pharmacology, biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering, published from 1969 to the present.  For a keyword search, remove the checkmark in the box next to " Map Term to Subject Heading;" for an author or title search, click on the icons at the top.  To combine previous searches, click on the "Combine" icon at the top
• General Science Abstracts: citations and abstracts for articles in general science periodicals, published from 1984 to the present with abstracts starting in 1993.
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: citations and abstracts for research in language and linguistics, from 1973 to the present.
• Medline: citations and abstracts for articles in biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, published from 1966 to the present.  For a keyword search, remove the checkmark in the box next to "Map Term to Subject Heading;" for an author or title search, click on the icons at the top.  To combine previous searches, click on the "Combine" icon at the top
• PsycINFO: citations and abstracts for publications about psychology and related disciplines, from 1887 to the present.  For a keyword search, remove the checkmark in the box next to "Map Term to Subject Heading" for an author or title search, click on the icons at the top.  To combine previous searches, click on the "Combine" icon at the top
• Science Citation Index: useful for determining if any articles have cited a specific article or book, for tracing the development of an idea, or to examine the references of an article.  Click on ISI Web of Science to enter the science database, then use "Easy Search", or "Full Search" then "General Search", to look up citations; use "Full Search" then "Cited Ref Search" to look up who cited a given author.

FULL TEXT JOURNALS

• Annual Reviews: reviews of topics in the biomedical, physical and social sciences
• BioOne: over 50 full-text journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences
• EBSCO Online: contains thousands of journals including many in the sciences
• Ingenta: contains thousands of journals including many in the sciences
• JSTOR: more than 320 scholarly journals from various publishers, from their first issue up to a few years ago -  no issues from the last 3 to 6 years (depending on the journal)
• Project Muse: full-text articles from more than 200 scholarly journals
• ProQuest Direct: full text articles and citations for articles from newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals. For scholarly journals, click on "Databases selected" at top, clear all databases and select "Research Library", click on "Continue" at top, and select Advanced Search 
• Science Direct: database of full-text journals in the sciences, technology medicine and psychology; to search, click on "Search" at the top left
• SpringerLink: scientific, technical, and medical books and journals.
• Wiley InterScience: full-text access to journals in the fields of earth science, education, life science, medicine, psychology, etc.

WEB RESOURCES
 By doing a Web search on your topic you may be able to find bibliographies, names of researchers, protocols and other information about current research.